nêng 能 "capacity" (see ch'üan)

Nung Lin Pu 農林部 Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (under the Executive Yüan)

Pa-lu-chün 八路軍 "Eighth Route Army"; the chief Chinese Communist force, formerly the Chinese Red Army and now the Eighteenth Army Corps

pao 保 a unit of local government; roughly, a neighborhood

pao-chia 保甲 a system of local government embodying principles of collective responsibility and mutual aid within interlocking groups of households and neighborhoods

Pien-ch'ü 邊區 Frontier Area or Border Region; the former translation is used for the Communist zone in the Northwest, and the latter for the guerrilla government in North China

Pu 部 a Ministry (under the Yüan), Department (under the Military Affairs Commission), or equivalent organ of government; the term is one of long standing in Chinese government

Pu Chang 部長 Minister; head of a pu

San Min Chu I 三民主義 the three principles of the people; Sun Yat-sen's political philosophy, now the official state dogma of China

San Min Chu I Ch'ing-nien T'uan 三民主義青年團 the San Min Chu I Youth Corps